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the Park before they come to the City for consideration. He stated that when the <br />owners of the California Center site volunteered a number of years ago to become a <br />housing site, they asked Hacienda if they could pursue this additional entitlement, and <br />Hacienda said yes, but only if they were not affecting the cap. He noted that staff <br />encouraged California Center to move forward because it was the highest ranked <br />housing site on the list; however, the project can move forward only if these <br />clarifications being considered tonight are approved. <br />Mr. Dolan concluded that that is essentially the issue here. He stated that there is a lot <br />more detail staff could go into if the Commission is interested. He noted that there were <br />some emails back and forth between staff and Commissioner Allen, copies of which <br />were given to the Commissions. He indicated that some of the emails had very specific <br />questions, a lot were mathematical, and staff tried to answer those and share with <br />everybody. He stated that a lot of the tracking has to do with traffic, and the staff person <br />who is most familiar with the technicalities of tracking is Mike Tassano, City Traffic <br />Engineer, who is also present tonight to answer any questions. <br />Mr. Dolan also acknowledged that he had conversations with Commissioner Allen about <br />whether or not this would be more appropriately first brought forward in a workshop so <br />the Commission could have more time with the issue. He indicated that he decided not <br />to do that, but should the Commission need to take more time to absorb some parts of <br />this proposal, the Commission has the ability to do that. He further indicated that he <br />tried to keep his presentation simple so it was easily understandable should the <br />Commission wanted to move forward. <br />Commissioner Allen inquired what the trigger is for bringing this proposal forward now <br />versus waiting for a longer term look at a unified program to clarify how development <br />will be counted in the future. She further inquired if the trigger is mainly the California <br />Center project. <br />Mr. Dolan replied that the trigger for right now is California Center. He explained, <br />however, that what is being talked about in the future is a processing methodology, and <br />this is sort of the substance of whether or not they are exempt. He noted that there are <br />other projects that have been out there that will require the square footage at some <br />point. He further noted that several years ago, there has been a proposal that actually <br />got a complete application for additional development on the California Center site that <br />was not originally anticipated in the current approval. He indicated that it got the same <br />nod from Hacienda, with the same condition that it receive additional capacity from the <br />City. He continued that that proposal has been on hold, and part of the property that <br />would have housed that project was used for the housing that was ultimately proposed <br />on California Center. He added that staff does not really know what that will ultimately <br />look like, but he believes that California Center plans on coming forward. He further <br />added that California Center is a unique site; it is a very large site but is considered to <br />be inefficiently development because it does not have very much development on it <br />now. <br />PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 28, 2013 Page 6 of 16 <br />